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<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>(What's with the "helicopter" reference??)</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Explorers discover huge cave in Venezuela<br><br>Immense finding also leads researchers to new poison frog species</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060222/060222_newcave_vlrg_930a.widec.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Image: "Cueva del Fantasma"<br>Charles Brewer-carias / Zootaxa via Magnolia Press<br>A view from inside "Cueva del Fantasma" shows the entrance of the huge cave. This is the first geographic report and photograph of such a huge cave.<br></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br>A cave so huge <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>helicopters </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->can fly into it has just been discovered deep in the hills of a South American jungle paradise.<br><br>Actually, "Cueva del Fantasma" — Spanish for "Cave of the Ghost" — is so vast that <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>two helicopters</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> can comfortably fly into it and land next to a towering waterfall.<br><br>It was found in the slopes of Aprada tepui in southern Venezuela, one of the most inaccessible and unexplored regions of the world. The area, known as the Venezuelan Guayana, is one of the most biologically rich, geologically ancient and unspoiled parts of the world.<br><br>This is the first geographic report and photographic evidence of such an immense cave. However, researchers say, it isn’t really a cave, but a huge, collapsed, steep gorge.<br><br>As a bonus, researchers also discovered a new dendrobatid frog species, Colostethus breweri, named for the frog’s identifier, Charles Brewer-Carías. Dendrobatid frogs make up the group of amphibians commonly known as "poison dart" frogs.<br><br>Scientists distinguished C. breweri from its close relatives by its particular skin pattern, absence of fringes on fingers, moderate toe webbing, tongue characteristics, and yellow and orange coloration on its undersides. It is described as a fast-moving frog that lives along creeks and in quiet pools along small streams along the slopes near the cave.<br><br>This is the eighteenth described species of Colostethus discovered in Venezuelan Guayana.<br><br>This discovery, not widely reported, was detailed in the Jan. 17 issue of the journal Zootaxa.<br><br>Edit: Added source of article:<br>http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11499977/ <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=nomo@rigorousintuition>nomo</A> at: 2/23/06 3:12 pm<br></i>

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>(What's with the "helicopter" reference??)<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Uh..... they flew two helicopters into it maybe!!?!!? <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rolleyes --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>YOU CAN SEE THEM IN THE PHOTO! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :eek --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eek.gif ALT=":eek"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Maaaaan that's a big cave! Looks like you could fly a whole fleet of helicopters in there, never mind two! <p></p><i></i>

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> Looks like you could fly a whole fleet of helicopters in there, never mind two!</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Yes, but to what end??<br> <p></p><i></i>

...SOMEONE has never flown a helicopter into a CAVE before!!! how embarrassing for you to come here, on RI, where EVERYONE has flown a helicopter into a cave...if not TWO helicopters!<br><br><br>j/k<br><br><br>Personally I hope the new unit for measurment is changed over to helicopter, rather than meters or feet.<br><br><br>the imagery I got, mentally, from this post was very Hellboy-ish. poison frogs, giant caves.... <p></p><i></i>

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Personally I hope the new unit for measurment is changed over to helicopter, rather than meters or feet.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Yeah definitely very Hellboy! I'm sure there'll be a huge cthulu-esque statue at the back of that cave somewhere... <p></p><i></i>

What an absolutely gorgeous place...<br><br>Rich guys with helicopters get to do all the fun stuff... <p></p><i></i>

So very fantasic. But maybe they call it a ghost cave because it is full of supernatural activity? But just imagine going there. It looks like a place where mermaids repose, and where warriors go for a poison dart refill. So don't necessarily believe "them" when they say there is no more room for humans. Maybe theyre just hogging up all the good stuff on Earth for themselves! <p></p><i></i>